Vista? Hello or goodbye?

[deeplfo]

ditto on Win7.  Vista was a joke.

Mohen


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From: Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com>
To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
Sent: Monday, May 9, 2011 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Vista? Hello or goodbye?

Personally, I'd nuke Vista and get Win7 if you can.  Seriously.  Win 7
is an OS that Microsoft really got right.  I actually *enjoy* working
with it.

Tony

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Dave S <sly at mu-sly.co.uk> wrote:
> Hey Bar,
>
> So I got my brand-new-second-hand Lenovo T61 - seems like a great
> machine so far.
>
> This one came fully tricked out (4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, webcam etc.) but
> has Win Vista Business 32bit installed.
>
> I've been playing with it a bit, and to be honest, I don't actually
> hate the user experience so far.  But there are a few small annoyances
> which I'm trying to figure out a solution to.
>
> Essentially, I want to repartition the hard drive so I can dual boot
> with Linux Mint Debian Edition.  I've managed this OK-ish so far, in
> that using various tools and by turning lots of things like Hibernate
> and Restore Points off, I've been able to squish the Vista partition
> down to "only" 330GB - despite the fact that only 20GB of it is
> actually containing any data.
>
> This isn't really good enough for me! I always keep my system and my
> data files separate, and with this much hard drive space partitioned
> (seemingly irrevocably) to Vista because of unmovable system files
> like (the empty) $Badclus which is sitting there bang in the middle of
> the drive like a stupid unmovable blob, I'm finding that I'm seriously
> considering wiping Vista off here and putting XP Pro on instead for
> music making, if only so I can set up a sane (safer) hard drive
> partition scheme.
>
> (Incidentally, I was unable to find out a clear answer on this: Does
> the presence of an empty $Badclus file give any cause for concern? Or
> is it on every Vista partition, regardless of whether there are any
> bad clusters?)
>
> So, the question is: at this point in 2011, have I got anything to
> lose from downgrading to XP? Especially considering that music making
> is just about the only thing I use Windows for, and that XP handles my
> needs just fine?
>
> I don't have any Vista re-install DVD, and I'm not quite sure if I can
> make the Lenovo recovery disks either (haven't yet found where to do
> this from despite checking various online tutorials). I'm unlikely to
> shell out for Win 7, so if I do get rid of Vista, it may well be
> fairly final.
>
> It's just that XP to me is a far more known quantity (with partitions
> that I can resize in GParted for a start!), and still does everything
> I need from Windows land as far as I can tell.
>
> So, Vista: nuke it or keep it?
>
> Thanks for your thoughts!
>
> ~Dave
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